Kristal.AI Interview Experience for Internship (On-Campus) 2021

Kristal Recruitment Team visited our campus in mid-February 2021 for the role of QA Summer Intern for pre-final year students.

Initial Eligibility Criteria

• 60% or 6.0 CGPA in class X and XII.
• 60% or 6.0 CGPA in the pursuing degree.
• No standing arrears

The shortlisting was done based on the current CGPA. 36 students (9.3+ CGPA) were shortlisted and received a mail regarding their selection process.

Round 1

• Round 1 was supposed to be an Online Test for the shortlisted students, but it got converted into an interview. We were provided time slots for our interviews through the mail. So the interview was a combination of two things Aptitude + Basic Technical.
• The interviewer first asked me to introduce myself. I mentioned ‘I’ve worked as a back-end developer with Nodejs, MongoDB‘ in my introduction. So the questions were based on API calls, SQL, and Non-SQL Databases.
• Then she said she was going to give me some basic puzzles or riddles to solve. So I got 25 horses puzzle (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-9-find-the-fastest-3-horses/). I told her my approach but wasn’t able to solve it. Without wasting much time, I told her I wasn’t able to figure out the logic.
• She was pretty supportive and encouraging and gave me another puzzle to solve (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-man-fell-in-well-puzzle/). It did take a bit of time, but I finally gave the correct answer.
• Then again, she moved to technical questions but asked basic questions like static and final static keywords. She also gave me a 2 line code and asked me whether we could change that variable’s value if the variable was static or final static.
• Finally, she wrapped up the interview by asking if I had any questions for her.
• The interview lasted for 30 mins. In another half an hour, I got a mail that I’ve been shortlisted for Round 2 as well

Round 2: 

• Round 2 was also an interview round with the Head of Engineering @Kristal.ai. It was a combination of Resume + Technical.
• He made the interview very comfortable and asked me ‘How did my previous interview go‘ and ‘Who was my interviewer for the first round‘. Before asking me any questions, he introduced himself and explained the job role and what they were looking for in an intern.
• Then he asked me to Introduce myself where he asked me, particularly about my previous internship. He asked me what was my role there and what all things I did there. Then as the role they were looking for was QA, he gave me a scenario where Amazon App was the product; before launching this product in the market or to the clients, I should design the test cases that needed to perform on the app. So I asked him to give me 1 min time to think. (It’s better to ask for time to think instead of just speaking anything useless without thinking).
• I answered it by giving the test cases that I thought would be relevant, like testing the search bar on the app. Like, it should be case insensitive and others 5-6 test cases that came to my mind explaining different scenarios.
• He then asked me if I was familiar with the OOPS concept. I explained to him the OOPS concept and its features. He asked with to explain Encapsulation, Data Abstraction, and the Difference between both. Then he moved on to Searching and Sorting, where I briefed him regarding the techniques, and the time was almost up.
• This interview also lasted for 30 mins, and he also wrapped it asking if I had any questions for him.

Round 3:

• There was one more round, i.e. Round 3, before this telephonic call which was also a technical round. Only two students were shortlisted further to go to round 3. (I was not one of them). Both those students didn’t get selected.
• After 2hrs of Round 2, I directly got a call from the Head of HR @Kristal.ai without Round 3. It wasn’t an interview call but was more like a conversation.
• She asked me how did my previous interviews go. Where I am currently situated, and how many members do I have in my family. She asked me what job profile do I wish to have in my future. And also whether I am ready to relocate to Bangalore for their Summer Internship.
• I instantly got a mail from HR regarding my selection.

Only 2 students were finally selected as Summer Interns, and I was one of them. I hope it helps :).

ALL THE BEST!!